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Littwin: Democrats held a debate, but in the time of coronavirus,...

Updated at 11:53 a.m. Monday to include Denver’s latest response to pandemic. It was an easy debate to score. Neither Democrat quite won. And Donald...

Wiretap: Who could have predicted Trump’s latest outrage? Well, Obama for...

Who could have predicted Donald Trump's stunning reaction to the neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville? Barack Obama for one, writes David Remnick in The New...

Cardinal O’Malley departs from Archbishop Chaput, welcomes children of gays

Nine months after Hingham Catholic school in Boston rescinded the application of a child of lesbian parents, the Archdiocese there has adopted a new admissions policy that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. The new policy comes at the direction of Cardinal Sean O'Malley and stands in sharp contrast to the position taken by Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, who supported Sacred Heart Elementary School in Boulder last year in rejecting the applications of two students because their parents are gay.